KU is #1
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Good analogy and fitting.
We’ve had an unprecedented amount of success under Self and there will always be some low points sprinkled in no matter how good we have it. Seemed like the low points piled on this offseason and as you put it hopefully the storm has passed.
I fully support the transfer portal despite some of its warts. The amount of turnover from this past season’s team was alarming and disappointing. Especially when you think 1-2 of them that left could have been pillars for future teams. Hopefully it all works out for the better. It needs to
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The feast or famine nature of our past seasons is kind of astounding. 2017 Pounded by Oregon in E8 (at least we got that far) 40 miles from home. 2018 FF blowout against a great great team. (but that never happened now) Success. 2019 Embarrassing blowout against Auburn 2020 National Champs! 2021 Embarrassing blowout against USC. 2022 National Champs! 2023 Relatively embarrassing loss to Arkansas and their striptease coach. Not much middle ground there. Either we go far and its fun or we bow out early getting blown out. Or put it this way, odd year, embarrassed, even year great success. So really what could go wrong this year? Nothing, it’s an even year!
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Furphy is out a week or so with shin splits. Not good. Kind of the guy who can’t afford to miss practice time.
Interesting to hear Self kind of hint that McDowell may be getting more minutes then we think. We shall see if it’s just some coach speak
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@wissox Never really understood the “embarrassed” narrative. Disappointed, but never embarrassed!
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@DanR TBH I have said the same thing to people sometimes who say things like ‘this is so embarrassing’ when their team is getting beat bad. I had a weak moment and used it here!!
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I’d be more excited if Hunter wasn’t such a douche
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I can’t remember all of the games you mentioned but the losses against Oregon, Villanova and Arkansas were strikingly familiar in that Jay Wright, Dana Altman and Eric Musselman all exploited a player matchup weakness that KU could not stop. Maybe because of a lack of quality defensive depth.
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@focojayhawk said in KU is #1:
I’d be more excited if Hunter wasn’t such a douche
Why is he a “douche”??
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@focojayhawk We could probably use a good big man douche. Can he grit his teeth and yell? Can he dunk the ball? - one hand or two is fine. Can he take a charge? Can he intimidate the opponent? I’ll nickname him right now - Massengill.
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I can’t remember all of the games you mentioned but the losses against Oregon, Villanova and Arkansas were strikingly familiar in that Jay Wright, Dana Altman and Eric Musselman all exploited a player matchup weakness that KU could not stop. Maybe because of a lack of quality defensive depth.
I think you’re thinking of the 2016 Villanova game when Perry Ellis’s lack of athleticismwas exploited. 2018 Villanova was just a flat out better team than KU and nobody was beating them that tournament.
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Dickinson gives KU an edge and swagger and I’m fine with being the villain this year. Those of y’all that are Chiefs fans already know what it feels like to cheer for the villain because the Chiefs have become that team now because of their success under Mahomes. I’ve embraced it for years now with the Astros and I’m ready to embrace it with basketball this year.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 You embraced a team cheating their way to a world series?
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@Woodrow Let a Wisconsin fan tell you why he’s a douche. Calls the Badgers scumbags in a podcast last year. The day after the fatal shooting at MSU he shows up for a game in Madison wearing a ski mask. During the game in Michigan later in the year stomps on Tyler Wahl who is prone on the floor. I’ll be honest and say there is some doubt whether it was intentional or not, it looked like it could have been, of course from my perspective it was intentional (!) but it was not a good month to be a foe of him, and while I love that he’s a Jayhawk because he’s very good, I also dislike it at the same time.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 What makes the Chiefs the villain under Mahomes? Do you mean because of their success, they’re disliked?
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@approxinfinity I don’t look at the Chiefs as villains.
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@approxinfinity Of course the Chiefs are villains! Tom Brady was a villain, Lebron is a villain, Wilt was a villain, the Yankees were villains… Yes, all highly successful teams and players get hated. As to the Chiefs, if you read the comments on any national sports media for the past 5 years, you will know that ALL calls go the Chiefs’ way, that Roger has issued a mandate to make sure Mahomes (the “chosen one”) always succeeds, and that the Fix is in so there is no reason to even watch the games. (And any ratings figures about the Chiefs are fake, btw.) Then there are Tyreek, Hunt, Clark, all those felons…
Golly, where ya been?
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@Texas-Hawk-10 You embraced a team cheating their way to a world series?
Every team had their system of sign stealing in place. Nobody gives a damn that Yankees and Red Sox were doing it too and mentioned prominently in that report or that Red Sox won the 2018 World Series by sign stealing as well because it’s the Yankees and Red Sox and they’re supposed to be great every year. People also forget or ignore that the Astros were a better team away from home in 2017 than they were at MMP.
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@approxinfinity said in KU is #1:
@Texas-Hawk-10 What makes the Chiefs the villain under Mahomes? Do you mean because of their success, they’re disliked?
The Chiefs have become the villains of the NFL because they’re basically the final boss now. They replaced the Patriots in that if you want to win a Super Bowl, you have to go through the Chiefs. There’s also the perception that the Chiefs get every questionable call and that Mahomes is as protected as Brady was now. Basically, the Chiefs have the refs in their pockets now.
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Also Reid and the Chiefs have a way of taking risks on guys other teams won’t so it appears they prioritize winning above character.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Being a Chiefs fan, I feel otherwise. We get on the wrong side of the calls.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Being a Chiefs fan, I feel otherwise. We get on the wrong side of the calls.
I didn’t say the Chiefs don’t have bad calls go against them, just that the perception is the Chiefs get all of those calls just like the perception was Brady and Patriots got all the 50/50 calls.
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I don’t care if Dickinson is edgy unless he beats his chest instead of getting back on defense. I do want to see why Self is so enamored with him.
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I don’t care if Dickinson is edgy unless he beats his chest instead of getting back on defense. I do want to see why Self is so enamored with him.
He’s 7’2", averaged 19-9 the past two seasons, can shoot 40% from 3, and is an elite passing big. There’s a reason he was chosen as the preseason B12 POY and if he plays to his potential here, could very well end up winning NPOY under Self.
With Dickinson and KJ on offense, we are going to see a lot of high-low involving those two. Dickinson’s 3 point ability also means we should see a lot of lobs as teams have to guard him away from the basket opening up backdoor cuts for McCullar and others.
The reason he’s not in the NBA right now is that he isn’t a great natural athlete. Basically I’m expecting to see a lot of elements of the 2022 offense and going back to the Aldrich, Morris, Robinson era of having two capable post players on the floor together. It should be fun to see what Self comes up with for this group on offense.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 I’m HOPING the Dickenson/KJ combo is like a Withey-TRob combo as more of a bigger clunkier Withey and mini T-Rob…
Bill likes to figure out a way to utilize those weird combinations of players. With HD’s range and KJ’s jumping/screening ability it should be fun to watch. I’m guessing KJ will have twice the number of dunks as HD and Harris will be racking up the assists at will
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Fans and most other qbs respect mahomes, more so than they ever did Brady. He does a lot of commercials and other celebrity events w/other players. Now w/Travis and Taylor we have more fans than any team! Lol
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@Crimsonorblue22 until they break up, then Swifties will burn Arrowhead to the ground
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@FarmerJayhawk I thought all fairy-tales end happily…
🥳
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@mayjay you could say it’s a nightmare dressed like a day dream
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@Crimsonorblue22 I agree. Mahomes is a fun kid and I really enjoy watching him play. To see the KC’s of the world win championships is a lot easier to take than another Boston team or NY team winning.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in KU is #1:
@Crimsonorblue22 until they break up, then Swifties will burn Arrowhead to the ground
No, they will all buy the 3 albums with her songs about the breakup and then cry incessantly!
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@mayjay
I think they’re gold.
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Hunter Dickinson named AP preseason 1st Team All-American.
Also, allegedly KSU lost their secret scrimmage game against SMU according to Mike Vernon.
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@approxinfinity I don’t look at the Chiefs as villains.
Me either. And invoking Houston into this analogy made me throw up in my mouth a little.
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I did a little trolling yesterday of the kitty’s. - -100 % right read where they got beat by SMU off their boards - - 86-76. - -was said they got beat to death inside on the board- - - Ahh I’m sorry.
Tomlin didn’t play, something going on there, not playing till it’s cleared up. - -said he may have crossed the line - - -something to do with the NBA, not sure, but that is what was mentioned.- -Not sure what that might be unless it had something to do with their workouts
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@bskeet Yes, when PBS Frontline does a 90 minute expose of the Astros cheating ways, well there’s a lot of smoke there. Doesn’t even matter if Boston/NY cheated as he alleges, that reeks of whataboutism. I suppose since other people cheat on their income taxes we should too!
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No secret scrimmage for KU. Illinois is coming right up. What does everyone think?
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@stoptheflop I’m just excited! Suppose to be a cold and wet weekend. Ready to watch some fb games and BB. Glad I get the big 10 station. Dang! Chiefs will run over into the BB game.
